"I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one. ... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money. ... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it."

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Source : Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 1986.

James Clavell

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“People standing up and saying, 'This isn't right,' is certainly a quality I admire in specific circumstances. There are people who do that and have a different set of politics, and then I don't necessarily agree with what they're doing and why they're doing it. But the act in and of itself of saying something is wrong and standing up for what they think is right is something I generally admire.”
“There are so many girls out there that I don't have to work with and who aren't married or have boyfriends. There's plenty of people out there, so you don't have to mix work and pleasure. It gets muddy.”
“If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven”
“A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.”
“I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.”
“No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.”
“It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.”
“Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.”

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